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My name is Christina and I am a lover of chocolate, weddings, travel,taking pictures, reading,food and my family.

I am a Wedding/Boudoir Photographer by choice and a Wife, Mom and Grandma because of love.

At this point in life I never know what is going to come next. So I roll with the punches and keep moving. Weddings are like that to you have to be ready for almost anything and if your not well....that's ok too that's what makes the journey and the stories you'll tell all the more fun.

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Posted on February 9, 2010

Five years ago my oldest grandchild was born.  I wasn’t ready for it, wasn’t ready to be a grandmother.  As the big day approached and people would ask me how I felt I told them I wasn’t sure.  Then the day arrived and my life changed for ever, for the better.  I can’t even imagine now what I was ever scared of.

Being a grandmother is like the best thing in the world, it’s  one of the only things I love better than getting to photograph weddings.  I like to describe it as a sweet reward for all the sleepless nights, 3am feedings, cupcakes you bake and messess you clean up. For all the kids you played taxi for and the hormone swings when your kids were teens you receive a sweet bundle of joy one day to hold and watch grow.  Now instead of being the bad guy, I get to be the good guy having fun and adventures that I was too worried and stressed to do when my kids were young. 

All those things went through my mind last weekend at Daviona’s birthday party at Chucke E Cheese.  For those of you who don’t have children it’s an indoor wonderland for kids with food, video games, indoor playground, prizes and a big rodent named Chuck E Cheese who more often than not makes the kids cry.  It is not for the faint of heart and if you are hard of hearing so much the better because the sound levels are through the roof.  It was hard to think at all but I had to find some way to amuse myself as they young children played. 

Turning five is one of those milestone birthdays.  The one where you can put up your whole hand, be called a big girl or boy and start on that new adventure called school.  I am so glad that I am here to see my granddaughter meet this mile marker.  I remember almost fifteen years ago being told that I was sick and would die before my own children graduated high school.  They were seven, five, and three at the time. I didn’t know what to think but I know I prayed and asked God to let me live to see them make that milestone in there life.   I am so blessed by God to be here as my youngest finally graduates from school this year.  I am doubly blessed to see my grandchild turn five.   I am blessed and I pray I never forget it.

Here are a few pictures from Daviona’s party.  She is a delightful young child with a beautiful smile and a generous heart. 



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